M 5.2 in Indonesia on 29 Oct 2012 06:28 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 120553
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 9.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.1687 , 123.431
Event Date: 29 Oct 2012 06:28 UTC
29 Oct 2012 14:28 Local
Exposed Population:
690000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Oct 2012 06:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usb000dgd2 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 692 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

US-Wahlkampf Sechs Milliarden DollarFri, 02 Nov 2012 06:20:00 +0100.

Der US-Wahlkampf dürfte in diesem Jahr nach Berechnungen einer regierungsunabhängigen Or-ganisation insgesamt rund sechs Milliarden Dollar (4,62 ...
US-Wahlkampf Sechs Milliarden DollarFri, 02 Nov 2012 06:15:00 +0100.

Der US-Wahlkampf dürfte in diesem Jahr nach Berechnungen einer regierungsunabhängigen Or-ganisation insgesamt rund sechs Milliarden Dollar (4,62 ...
Quake hits Indonesia's MinahassaFri, 02 Nov 2012 05:43:00 +0100.

KUALA LUMPUR: An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale struck Minahassa Peninsula in Indonesia at 7.37 am today, the Malaysian Meteorological Department reported.
US-Wahlkampf Sechs Milliarden DollarFri, 02 Nov 2012 05:21:00 +0100.

Der US-Wahlkampf dürfte in diesem Jahr nach Berechnungen einer regierungsunabhängigen Or-ganisation insgesamt rund sechs Milliarden Dollar (4,62 ...

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),